Starbound - Book 1

Chapter One - Awakening And Avians And Apes

August blinks awake, his eyes are heavy and his hair's a mess. He sits up from the cold metal floor, "What the...Where am I...?" he crawls to his feet and takes view of the window. Coming face to face with a purple backdrop, filled with shining white stars, and floating rocks. Below, a large, orange planet. "What in the-" He begins to panic a bit, and calm down. "I'm...In the middle of space?!" August Stratos walks about the decently large ship. Everything was a mess. Empty soda cans littered the floor along with a toppled over pot of soil...The ship is dark, making it hard he searches along the wall for a control panel. "C'mon...Where is it?" He growls bitterly and feels a glass like surface, "Finally..." he taps his forefinger on the screen, and an orange and blue GUI opens up, lighting up a bit of the room.

"Error reboot system 404, Scanning for damage systems. Hydro-Calibrator Offline, Launch Pad Offline, Data Storage Crash, Attempting Reboot Process," the computer manages to spit out. August tapped on the screen, "Launch Reboot" and sighs, "How the hell did this happen?"

"Reboot complete. Lighting Systems Online. Thrusters Online. Oxygen Stabilizers Online. Proceed To Install Adobe Flash?"
"Adobe Flash? What IS that?" August ignored the command and flipped through the command list, "Computer, activate Matter Manipulator, and Launch Pad, stat."
"Rebooting now...Reboot complete. Launch Pad online, Matter Manipulator online."
August walks from the control panel and opens the doors to the messy cockpit of the ship, "Whoa.." He looked around at the damaged fuel tanks, and damaged controls, electricity and wires poking out. "Let's hope the map still works...Computer! Command Issue 409, Z40 X201."
"Processing command. Please hold...Command Complete. Opening Interstellar Map."

The screen brightened and opened up a map of the solar system he was in..."This isn't the Milky Way...Far from it...!" August thinks aloud and flicks around the screen searching for the Milky Way. "Computer! Issue command Search. Coordinates 404-201. Quadrant E20, Earth."
"Processing your request...Loading...Loading...Error 404, "Earth" not found."

"What do you mean, '"Earth not found"?" August growls slamming his fist into the computer's keypad. "Earth! The green and blue planet!"
"Did you mean, Grass And Black Pluto?"

"Agh!! Fine!" August walks out of the cockpit and steps onto the Launch Pad, "Command Issue, Warp." A bright light shines, and August quickly disappears in the red beam of energy, and falls to the planet below.

He looks around the forest like planet, "This'll do...There should be a village nearby, I can probably look for some new parts and hopefully some stuff I can use..." His stomach growls, "...and some food."

"I see someone over here captain!"

"Wha-?!" August jerks his head over to the sound of a voice, behind him is three humanoid birds dressed in pirate-like uniforms. "Avians..." August growls under his breath, "Of course I get trouble the second I'm dropped off..."
"Ahoy there human!" A small emperor penguin one waddled to the middle, wearing a pirate captains hat, and an eyepatch over his eye, "I be Captain Dreadwing, the captain of the mighty Sun's Pearl!" August took a step back, and slowly reached down and picked up a stick off the ground, "It's not a knife or anything...But it's worth a shot..." August thought to himself.

"Whoa there! No need to be hostile laddie! We're just going to take you back to the ship where you'll be working until yer hair grows white as a ghost!" the penguin said casually.

"That's exactly a good reason to be hostile!!" August yelled in disbelief.

"Hm...Well I suppose yer right," the captain stroked the orange feathers on his chin with his flipper thoughtfully, "Oh well!" The pirate captain then lifted his flipper in the air. "Get him!" The two other avians slowly closed in on August, one pointing a simple flintlock, the other with a sharp and dangerous scabbard. August glanced for a way to get past the nearing pirates, with no hope. He had no chance of getting past..The only way to get past them, was to fight. "Alright you car messing little pigeons...This is for my dad's Chevy!!" August rushed forward, and lifted his tree branch, and took a swing.